NASA Photo ID: S91-36095 File Name: 10065101.jpg
Film Type: 70mm Date Taken: 05/06/91
Title: Air to air view of Endeavour, OV-105, atop SCA flies over JSC enroute to KSC
Description:
Air to air view shows Endeavour, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 105, atop a Shuttle
Carrier Aircraft (SCA) NASA 911, a modified Boeing 747, flying over the
Clear Lake / NASA JSC area prior to a brief stopover at Ellington Field,
near JSC. JSC site appears behind and below the orbiter/aircraft
combination with Clear Creek and Egret Bay Blvd in the foreground and
Clear Lake and Galveston Bay in the background. OV-105 rolled out at
Rockwell's Palmdale facility on 04-25-91 to once more bring to four the
total of NASA Shuttles available for flight assignment. It left Houston
later on this day headed for another stop in Mississippi before landing in
Florida on 05-07-91. This photograph was taken from a T-38 aircraft by
Sheri J. Dunnette of JSC's Image Sciences Division (ISD).
Subject terms:
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
AIRPORTS
BOEING 747 AIRCRAFT
BUILDINGS
ENDEAVOUR (ORBITER)
FACILITIES
HOUSTON (TX)
TEXAS
WATERWAYS
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